This is a bad day. Americans are not ready for what's about to happen with ICE. The approved budget is bigger than the FBI, the DEA, the prison bureau and others COMBINED. We just approved a holocaust.
And I wish it would wake the church up. But they are becoming more bloodthirsty by the moment. I told my christian Trump-voting parents that if they voted for him a 3rd time, they are exactly like the church in Germany during WWII. My father screamed, SCREAMED, at me. "NO WE ARE NOT! NO WE ARE NOT!" He KNEW it was true and his cult like defense mechanisms kicked in. I've never been so afraid of him in my life. And we haven't spoken since the election. He and my mom approved ALL OF THIS.
I'm so sorry this has come between you and your parents; that is the case with many of us and our family members. You are not alone in this DuhThinker. xxxooo
Thank you for that, Hazel. It is so kind for you to care about me and mine while your suffering is so much greater than mine right now. I appreciate you.
Thank you for posting. You are so good at articulating the feelings of this moment. This is sad, it feels icky and dirty and so wrong. I will take my pause in my safe house with my loving husband. It doesn't feel like Happy 4th, more like "Goodbye-america -as-we-know-it-day". Be safe everyone.
Wow and I just received an email from the Social Security Administration singing the praises of the “Big Beautiful Bill”. I replied that it is not so beautiful for my disabled niece who depends on Medicare. And I added I was not happy with the tone.
Thank you, Jemar, for expressing both our lamenting and our anger. And reminding me that I am not alone in that. It's only when we can feel and express those feelings, that we can be freed up to follow Ps 37: 7, 8
Be still before the Lord
and wait patiently for him;
do not fret when people succeed in their ways,
when they carry out their wicked schemes.
8 Refrain from anger and turn from wrath;
do not fret—it leads only to evil.
And we only feel those feelings because of our love for God and neighbor, and it is that love that will carry us through these dark times.
The challenge to love enemies is bigger than usual today.
I have been wondering for the last 10 years, where is the church? During some of the hardest times, the church has barely raised its voice to defend the oppressed, marginalized and poor, just kept reading Bible verses but did nothing publicly to push back the evil.
I wonder. They might just as likely say, "well, you gotta break a few eggs to make an omelette". Think of the man in Texas who's unvaccinated daughter died of measles... he said he wouldn't change a thing.
I am so disappointed and brokenhearted over this final vote. I cannot comprehend how our republican senators/representatives can approve of cutting taxes for billionaires while taking funds and programs from our most vulnerable citizens. If my heart is breaking, I know my Lord’s is as well. Thank you Jamar for your strength, truth telling and vulnerability in sharing and teaching us. Blessings of peace and comfort.
Thank you for speaking truth. "Christian" leaders who are not speaking against what is happening should be afraid. This is why we changed churches in 2020. If my pastor is too afraid to call out evil, they are not a pastor. Honestly, when my pastor posts a bunch of headlines and says I am so f#&*%[*g depressed, I am glad to be under his leadership.
I am wrestling with the gravity of your quote "modern law enforcement is the closest thing we have today to chattel slavery". The truth of that is a gut punch.
As someone who has lived in an African country under an authoritarian regime, I am not surprised at what is happening, but I am mourning.
God will not leave us, but it doesn't mean it will be simple and we will be required to speak and act. Put on that full armor of God and keep fighting.
I just want to go for a walk. Feel my feelings.
Same.
This is a bad day. Americans are not ready for what's about to happen with ICE. The approved budget is bigger than the FBI, the DEA, the prison bureau and others COMBINED. We just approved a holocaust.
The level of state violence about to be unleashed is devastating.
And I wish it would wake the church up. But they are becoming more bloodthirsty by the moment. I told my christian Trump-voting parents that if they voted for him a 3rd time, they are exactly like the church in Germany during WWII. My father screamed, SCREAMED, at me. "NO WE ARE NOT! NO WE ARE NOT!" He KNEW it was true and his cult like defense mechanisms kicked in. I've never been so afraid of him in my life. And we haven't spoken since the election. He and my mom approved ALL OF THIS.
I'm so sorry this has come between you and your parents; that is the case with many of us and our family members. You are not alone in this DuhThinker. xxxooo
Thank you for that, Hazel. It is so kind for you to care about me and mine while your suffering is so much greater than mine right now. I appreciate you.
Thank you for posting. You are so good at articulating the feelings of this moment. This is sad, it feels icky and dirty and so wrong. I will take my pause in my safe house with my loving husband. It doesn't feel like Happy 4th, more like "Goodbye-america -as-we-know-it-day". Be safe everyone.
Wow and I just received an email from the Social Security Administration singing the praises of the “Big Beautiful Bill”. I replied that it is not so beautiful for my disabled niece who depends on Medicare. And I added I was not happy with the tone.
Thank you, Jemar, for expressing both our lamenting and our anger. And reminding me that I am not alone in that. It's only when we can feel and express those feelings, that we can be freed up to follow Ps 37: 7, 8
Be still before the Lord
and wait patiently for him;
do not fret when people succeed in their ways,
when they carry out their wicked schemes.
8 Refrain from anger and turn from wrath;
do not fret—it leads only to evil.
And we only feel those feelings because of our love for God and neighbor, and it is that love that will carry us through these dark times.
The challenge to love enemies is bigger than usual today.
MAGA Murder Bill
I have been wondering for the last 10 years, where is the church? During some of the hardest times, the church has barely raised its voice to defend the oppressed, marginalized and poor, just kept reading Bible verses but did nothing publicly to push back the evil.
They love it, Lisa. They love what is happening. They believe "sinners" are getting what they deserve.
Yeah, until MeeMaw loses her health care then they will feel a lot differently.
I wonder. They might just as likely say, "well, you gotta break a few eggs to make an omelette". Think of the man in Texas who's unvaccinated daughter died of measles... he said he wouldn't change a thing.
I am so disappointed and brokenhearted over this final vote. I cannot comprehend how our republican senators/representatives can approve of cutting taxes for billionaires while taking funds and programs from our most vulnerable citizens. If my heart is breaking, I know my Lord’s is as well. Thank you Jamar for your strength, truth telling and vulnerability in sharing and teaching us. Blessings of peace and comfort.
Youshould be cussing today!!!!!!
gut punch for real . . .. .make space for feelings.
Thank you for consistently speaking the truth. Words fail me today.
I’m wondering why we aren’t exploring more the connection between lower incarceration rates and the intent to fill prisons back up with immigrants. All. For. Profit. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/prisoner-populations-are-plummeting/683310/
Thank you for speaking truth. "Christian" leaders who are not speaking against what is happening should be afraid. This is why we changed churches in 2020. If my pastor is too afraid to call out evil, they are not a pastor. Honestly, when my pastor posts a bunch of headlines and says I am so f#&*%[*g depressed, I am glad to be under his leadership.
I am wrestling with the gravity of your quote "modern law enforcement is the closest thing we have today to chattel slavery". The truth of that is a gut punch.
As someone who has lived in an African country under an authoritarian regime, I am not surprised at what is happening, but I am mourning.
God will not leave us, but it doesn't mean it will be simple and we will be required to speak and act. Put on that full armor of God and keep fighting.
AMEN from a blue dot in red state Georgia. Preach it brother!!
Thank you for this. My daughter is on Medicaid, and I have no idea what is going to happen to her now.
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